National Seminar on the Dynamics of Representation
Interface One:
Contemporary Writing and the Arts ú the Cultural Scenario of South India
Region, Literature and Culture

Dedicated to the fond memory of 125 years of
Herman Hesse

8-10th January 2003, Tellicherry and Trivandrum, Kerala

Jointly organized by
Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Rashtrapati Nivas, Shimla and
Centre for South Indian Studies, Trivandrum

Contemporary theoretical discourse has introduced into our cultural practice concepts such as center, margin/periphery, the postmodern, subversion, transgression, the subaltern and the like. These have in turn triggered new intellectual vibrancy into the general slackening of dynamics and direction that followed on the wake of the modernist movement of the sixties and the political radicalism of the seventies. There also exists simultaneously a transverse concern for a new nationalism/internationalism with its consequent ambivalent attitude towards the postcolonial western style modernization of society, state and the nation. How do our cultural practices respond to these? What is their present status/dynamis? Is there a need for the cultural idiom to be excessively concerned with theoretical issues? What is the role of critical theory and practice in the context of Indian literary and artistic representations? Is there a strong intellectual movement to subvert and turn the center-periphery model inside out? What has happened to the tentative attempts-- those probings and explorations towards a common Indian poetic/Aesthetic-- towards the retracing of regional ideology and narrative? These are among the many other issues that the proposed Seminar would take up for debate and discussion. We intend to provide a common forum for healthy and intellectual debate by practicing artists, writers and critics equally concerned with these issues. Sessions will be on:

Language/Literature/Region/Culture
Poetry
Fiction/Short Story/Nonfiction
Criticism/Critical Theory/Aesthetics
Painting/Sculpture/Architecture/Music/Dance
Cinema and Film Theory
Drama and Theatrical Forms
Folklore

Papers are invited in the areas mentioned above for deliberation. The papers in English typed/computer type set in A4 size paper, signed by the authors should reach Centre for South Indian Studies, Gayathri, Kudappnakunnu, Trivandrum ú695005 on or before 20th December 2002. A copy in MSWord format in Floppy diskette also may be send to the Centre or a copy may be send as MSWord file attachà through e-mail to: csistvm@yahoo.com.


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Edited by ramannair_r on 12/21/02 09:50 AM.